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100-Year-Old Whisky Returns to Scotland

   VOA News  17 January 2011
   Undated  photo provided by Antarctic Heritage Trust via the Canterbury
   Museum,  a  whisky crate is stored beneath the floor of a hut built by
   British  explorer  Sir  Ernest  Shackleton  during  his 1908 Antarctic
   expedition

Photo: AP

   Undated  photo provided by Antarctic Heritage Trust via the Canterbury
   Museum,  a  whisky crate is stored beneath the floor of a hut built by
   British  explorer  Sir  Ernest  Shackleton  during  his 1908 Antarctic
   expedition

   More  than  100  years  ago, British explorer Ernest Shackleton buried
   several  crates of Scottish whisky under the Antarctic ice. On Monday,
   three bottles of the precious liquor were flown back to Scotland.
   The  bottles  of  Mackinlays whisky were discovered in 2007, in crates
   marked  "British Antarctic Expedition 1907" that had been tucked under
   the floor of a hut Shackleton built during his failed attempt to reach